In the year 2011, a sophisticated Los Angeles Company, Nanolabs, prepares to advertise a cancer cure in the form of nano-engines, microscopic molecular machines which mutate and restore organic tissue cell by cell. Genius Buck Hogan starts to have serious doubts when lab animals start to die. Profit-greedy CEO Donald ignores him and devises human tests and news conferences…
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Writer/director Jeff Stanzler’s tough drama Jumpin’ at the Boneyard features standout performances from Tim Roth and Alexis Arquette as brothers struggling against the odds in New York City. Manny is unemployed and struggling to find himself; Danny, his brother, is a drug addict. Together they have one day to rebuild their relationship and retrace their childhood footsteps through the meanest streets of New York. Only with each other’s help can they find the strength to change their lives.
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist… and neither can his addict wife.
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager attacked by white racists. His mother Doreen and father Neville fought to have the events properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the events, and the inadequate investigation into the events by the Metropolitan Police, London’s police force.
America is going to war and nuclear holocaust is an inevitablity. A group of friends retreat to a bomb shelter and try to come to terms with the changes in their lives that will occur after the bombing ceases.
The first part of the film — popular science — tells of recent (mid-1960s) achievements in the exploration of the Moon. Scientists discuss the hypothesis of the origin of the lunar maria, about the temperature of the lunar surface and the supposed properties of the lunar soil.
The second part of the film — science fiction — shows how the Moon in the near future will be developed by people from a hypothetical first lunar mission to lunar cities and laboratories.
Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes through glass. Near the film’s end the tram lands in Manhattan, as if it had reversed direction; as in all of Julie Murray’s films, the images and the editing can pull several ways at once. There are no absolutes, and even the light by which we see is altered by the material it passes through.
Down-on-his-luck widower Marvin meets Tige, an 11-year-old boy distraught in the wake of his mother’s death. Despite a rocky introduction, Marvin soon develops a close bond with the youngster and decides to adopt him. But, because the vagrant Marvin is financially unstable, he is unable to adequately care for the child. So Tige’s biological father, Richard, who is unaware of his son’s existence, is located and asked to take care of the boy.